Post-Conflict Memorialization (eBook)

Acknowledgements 6
Contents 7
Notes on Contributors 9
List of Figures 13
1 Introduction: Absence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Memorialisation 14
1.1 Memory and Trauma in Post-Conflict Communities 17
1.2 Absence, Remembrance, and Mourning 20
References 24
2 Articulating Presence of Absence: Everyday Memory and the Performance of Silence in Sarajevo 27
2.1 Introduction 27
2.1.1 Conceptualising Presence of Absence 29
2.1.2 Articulations of Silence 31
2.1.3 Silences and the Siege of Sarajevo 32
2.1.4 Commemoration, Art and the Presence of Absence 38
2.1.5 The Red Line of Sarajevo 40
2.1.6 Connecting Silence, Aesthetic Representation and Peace 41
2.2 Conclusions 43
References 44
3 Mourning in Reluctant Sites of Memory: From Afrophobia to Cultural Productivity 47
References 64
4 Dust on Dust: Performing Selk’nam Visions, Tracing Absent Bodies 67
4.1 The Shoes 68
4.2 Those Who Walked in the Shoes 72
4.3 Ghosts 77
4.4 Haunting 80
References 85
5 Absence, Gender, and the Land(Scape) in Palestinian Art 87
5.1 Gendering the Land and the Landscape 89
5.2 The Fading Landscape 93
5.3 Absence and the Figure of the Mother 98
5.4 Embodying Loss and Exile 103
References 109
6 Monumenting Our Pasts: Monuments, What Are They Now? 113
References 128
7 The Resolution of Doubts: Towards Recognition of the Systematic Abduction of Yemenite Children in Israel 130
7.1 Uzi Meshulam and the Yemenite Children Affair 133
7.2 The Abductions: How Were They Even Possible? 136
7.3 The Crime of the Silencing: How Is It Not Possible? 140
7.3.1 In the Cultural Sphere 140
7.4 In Official State Inquiries 142
7.5 Back to the Near Past: 2017—Establishing a New Committee of Inquiry 144
7.6 The Resolution of Doubts: The Commission at Work 147
7.7 Cover-Ups 152
7.8 Into the Stock of Stories: Two Kinds of Truths 154
References 157
8 The Commemorative Continuum of Partition Violence 161
8.1 The Partitioning of India and Pakistan 163
8.2 (Not) Memorializing Partition: Missing Memorials and Avoidance 164
8.3 Commemorating Independence Sans Partition 166
8.4 Silences and Scholarly Interventions 171
8.5 The Digital and Diasporic Turns 172
8.6 Conclusion: A Partition Museum at Last? 175
References 176
9 Absent Bodies, Present Pasts: Forced Disappearance as Historical Injustice in the Peruvian Highlands 180
9.1 Introduction 180
9.2 The Peruvian Civil War (1980–2000) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2001–2003) 184
9.3 Forced Disappearances in Yachay 186
9.4 Mourning in Absence of Bodies: ‘the Disappeared Exist, but They Are Not Here’ 188
9.5 Mourning in Absence of Acknowledgment: The Disappeared Are Here, but They Do Not Exist 192
9.6 The Role of the Dead in Achieving Social Justice in the Present 195
9.7 Conclusion: Opportunities and Pitfalls of Searching for the Disappeared 198
References 200
10 Restoring the Human Dignity of Absent Bodies in Colombia 203
10.1 Introduction 203
10.2 Human Dignity in Transitional Justice 204
10.3 The Human Dignity of Absent Bodies 207
10.4 The Restoration of Victims’ Dignity in Colombia 210
10.5 The Process of Dignification of Victims with Absent Bodies 213
10.6 Conclusion 216
References 217
11 The Wandering Memorial: Figures of Ambivalence in Hungarian Holocaust Memorialization 221
11.1 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence I: The Screen Memorial 226
11.2 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence II: The Ambiguous Memorial 228
11.3 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence III: The Wandering Memorial 231
11.4 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence IV: The Non-memorial 236
11.5 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence V: The Invisible Memorial 240
11.6 Conclusion 244
References 245
12 Afterword: Mourning, Memorialising, and Absence in the Covid-19 Era 249
References 258
Index 261